Bats, rats, and other nuisances reconsidered again for the n'th time.

[phiwum]

Originally Posted by hcobb

Note that the human is in HTH, but the giant is using normal attacks and trampling. The same applies for human vs rat.

Maybe. That's Axly's understanding, I think.

However, it is not suggested by the text in ITL or the Bestiary. In ITL, it merely says that a rat must attack from the same hex, not that it is in HTH when it does so. In the Bestiary, we see that "Rats may 'stack' at two per hex, and may attack from your hex or from adjacent ones," which again doesn't suggest anything about HTH.

If the rats were only allowed to use HTH when fighting from the same hex as the target, then they could only enter a man's hex using the HTH rules, I'd think -- unless the man voluntarily entered the rats' hex. Moreover, the rat would be +4 to be hit[1].

Are these the consequences you see from the supposition that the rat must be in HTH to attack from the same hex?

[1] The discussion of trampling doesn't mention a +4 to trample a (necessarily) prone human. I can't recall whether I usually use that +4 or not. I guess it applies.